EP2367339A1 - Tragbares Gehäuse für elektronische Geräte - Google Patents

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EP2367339A1
EP2367339A1 EP10002852A EP10002852A EP2367339A1 EP 2367339 A1 EP2367339 A1 EP 2367339A1 EP 10002852 A EP10002852 A EP 10002852A EP 10002852 A EP10002852 A EP 10002852A EP 2367339 A1 EP2367339 A1 EP 2367339A1
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housing
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Uwe Schmitz
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Novero GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
    • H04B1/38—Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
    • H04B1/3827—Portable transceivers
    • H04B1/385—Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/04—Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
    • H04M1/05—Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/60—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers including speech amplifiers
    • H04M1/6033—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers including speech amplifiers for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets
    • H04M1/6041—Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
    • H04M1/6058—Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
    • H04M1/6066—Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone including a wireless connection
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72409—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by interfacing with external accessories
    • H04M1/72415—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by interfacing with external accessories for remote control of appliances
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/0202—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets
    • H04M1/0254—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules
    • H04M1/0256—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules wherein the modules are operable in the detached state, e.g. one module for the user interface and one module for the transceiver
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
    • H04M2250/02—Details of telephonic subscriber devices including a Bluetooth interface

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  • the invention relates to a personally wearable controller for transmitting operating signals to a remotely located electronic device over a short-range wireless communication link.
  • the invention relates to a controller with the features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • a hand wearable controller is housed in a ring worn by a user on one of the fingers.
  • the ring forms the mechanical carrier component of the controller.
  • An electronic control unit housed in the ring is used to interact by a short-range wireless communication link with a remotely located electronic device, in particular with a mobile phone, a smart phone, a PDA (personal digital assistant), a laptop, or any other electronic device intended to be remotely controlled.
  • the electronic control unit comprises a small mechanical user interface in the form of a joy-stick to operate the control unit.
  • the controller of the prior art is a custom-made product, because it integrates the electronic control unit with the mechanical carrier component.
  • the ring being the mechanical carrier component has one specific size. For a different ring sizes there must be offered a different hand wearable controller.
  • the advantage of the prior art personally wearable controller is that the user is able to interact with the remotely located electronic device spontaneously. There is no need to retrieve a remote control from a pocket of a jacket or from a handbag, because it is simply carried on the hand of the user.
  • the hand wearable controller can e.g. accept an incoming call by manipulating the user interface on the controller without removing the e.g. mobile phone from the handbag.
  • a hand wearable controller of this kind are explained in the prior art document cited above.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a personally wearable controller in a construction to avoid the necessity to have the controller totally custom-made.
  • a personally wearable controller comprising the features of the preamble of claim 1 together with the features of the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the idea of the invention is that all parts of the electronic control unit are in a housing and that this housing is a unit that is completely separate from the mechanical carrier component, in particular from the ring.
  • the ring can be selected in the correct size to fit on the finger of the user's hand. Having found the precisely fitting ring it can be connected with the housing either fixedly or, preferably, detachably. So the ring is a decorative part on the finger of the user and it is the mechanical carrier.
  • the complete electronic system of the controller is provided in the separate housing.
  • the mechanical carrier component is a ring to be worn on a finger of a user or a bracelet to be worn on a wrist of a user.
  • the housing as such is designed as a decorative jewelry component. It will resemble e.g. a large pearl or a large gemstone. The total size of the jewelry item will probably not exceed the size of a large signet ring.
  • the housing may be self contained with a decorative jewelry component mounted on a front face of the housing facing away from the finger or wrist of the user.
  • connection between housing and ring can be made permanently, e.g. by welding or brazing or adhesive bonding.
  • the preferred connection is a detachable connection by way of e.g. a screw joint, the most preferred version, or a clip joint.
  • a clip joint the housing may have a form or structure that allows to press the housing onto the ring or bracelet in order to snap the housing into place.
  • the essential idea behind the inventive concept is to separate the mechanical carrier component completely from the electronic component so that the mechanical carrier component, in particular the ring or bracelet, can come in different sizes and in different designs according to the user's demand.
  • the electronic control unit can be designed and manufactured separately either by mass production of all parts or partly or wholly custom-made, in particular in combination with a decorative jewelry component.
  • the user interface can be either on the outside of the housing or can be accessible from the outside of the housing, e.g. through an opening in the housing.
  • Many ideas regarding the user interface can be obtained also from the prior art mentioned above.
  • a particularly preferred version of the invention is characterized in that the housing as such is movable relative to the mechanical carrier component or has a movable or deformable part that has the function of the user interface and a control operation is performed by manipulating the movable housing as such or the movable or deformable part of the housing, in particular like manipulation of a push button.
  • the housing is simply the housing as such that is used as the user interface of the electronic control unit.
  • the housing as such may be formed as a decorative jewelry component resembling the design of a large pearl or a large gemstone. Pushing the housing towards the mechanical carrier component, in particular the ring or bracelet, performs the control operation, e.g. accepting an incoming call or finishing a call on the mobile phone being the remotely located electronic device.
  • the remotely located electronic device is a headset of a mobile phone.
  • the controller has e.g. a Bluetooth link with the headset and the headset has a Bluetooth link with the mobile phone or the controller has a Bluetooth link with the mobile phone which as such has a Bluetooth link with the headset.
  • Fig. 1 shows in general a personally wearable controller for transmitting operating signals to a remotely located electronic device which indicated in Fig. 1 as a mobile phone 1.
  • a headset 2 is connected to the mobile phone 1 by means of a short-range wireless communication link 3 which nowadays usually uses the Bluetooth standard.
  • Bluetooth a short-range wireless communication link 3
  • other standards can be used to establish such wireless communication link, e.g. Wi-Fi, IR or the like (e.g. WPAN). Future standards still to be developed for short-range wireless communication shall be included as well.
  • the first wireless link 3 between the mobile phone 1 as the electronic device and the associated headset 2 with usually have the design of a typical wireless personal communication system.
  • the controller 4 here has a mechanical carrier component 5 in the form of a finger ring to be worn on a finger of user.
  • the mechanical carrier component 5 can also have the form of a bracelet to be worn on a wrist of a user.
  • the mechanical carrier component can be the basis of a pendant to be worn on a chain, a basis of a brooch or the like or any other personally wearable mechanical basis.
  • the mechanical carrier component 5 will also be mentioned directly as the ring 5.
  • the controller 4 comprises an electronic control unit that itself comprises an electronic core element 6 with a chip set to perform the intended control functions as well as the functions of a wireless communication link 7, an antenna 8 for wireless communication with the remotely located electronic device 1, a user interface 9 to operate the control unit, and an energy supply unit 10 which preferably and usually is a rechargeable battery pack.
  • Fig. 1 already shows the mechanical carrier component 5 in the form of the finger ring 5 to be completely separate from the electronic control unit. All parts of the electronic control unit are located in a housing 11 that is a unit completely separate from the mechanical carrier component 5.
  • the housing 11 is fixedly or, preferably, detachably connected to the mechanical carrier component 5, namely the ring 5.
  • the inventive hand wearable controller has a ring 5 that can come in different sizes and designs freely selectable by a user. There is no need to specifically design the ring 5 to house any of the electronic items of the electronic control unit.
  • the housing 11 of the electronic control unit contains all parts of the electronic control unit. It can be placed on any mechanical carrier component 5, in particular on any ring 5 or any bracelet.
  • Fig. 1 of the drawings shows a preferred embodiment of the invention in that the housing 11 is designed as a decorative jewelry component 12.
  • the housing 11 may resemble a large hemispherical gemstone 12 on a base carrier. Concealed within the fake gemstone 12 is the electronic control unit.
  • the alternative shown in Fig. 2 and 3 has a decorative jewelry component 12 mounted on a front face of the housing 11 facing away from the ring 5 or bracelet.
  • the housing 11 can be connected to the mechanical carrier component 5 either fixedly (i. e. by welding, brazing or adhesive bonding) or detachably, in particular by means of a screw joint 13 (as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 ) or alternatively also by means of a clip joint 14.
  • This version is shown in the separate view of the controller in Fig. 3 of the drawings.
  • the inventive hand wearable controller comes as a decorative jewelry item, either a decorative finger ring or a decorative bracelet.
  • the second function as an electronic control unit is effectively concealed by the specific design.
  • the construction is so that the ring 5 or bracelet can be selected to perfectly fit the size of finger or wrist of the user while the electronic control unit in the housing 11 is placed on the ring 5 or bracelet later after selecting the mechanical carrier component 5.
  • the user interface 9 is on the outside of the housing 11 or is accessible from the outside of the housing 11.
  • Fig. 2 and 3 show two different embodiments of the invention.
  • the housing 11 as such is movable relative to the ring 5.
  • the double headed arrow shows the direction of movement of the housing 11 relative to the ring 5.
  • the housing 11 is biased upwardly in Fig. 2 by a spring element 15 or the like.
  • the spring may be mounted around the screw joint 13.
  • Fig. 3 shows a different version where the housing 11 as such is contacting the ring 5 but has a movable or deformable part that has the function of the user interface 9.
  • the control operation is performed by pushing on the hemispherical gemstone 12 on top of the housing 11. It deforms the housing 11 and this deformation is processed by the electronic core element 6 as control signal.
  • FIG. 2 shows the version of a clip joint 14 between housing 11 and ring 5.
  • the housing 11 of thermoplastic material has clip legs forming the clip joint 14 and a compression spring 15 between the bottom of the housing 11 and the outside of the ring 5.
  • the compression spring 15 or a separate mechanical item can be used as a switching element to perform the intended control operation.
  • the present embodiment shows the remotely located electronic device as a mobile phone 1 with a headset 2 as a preferred application of the invention.
  • an MP-3-player or the like may be an interesting electronic device for use with such a hand wearable controller.

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CN106597476A (zh) * 2016-12-23 2017-04-26 浙江萌宠日记信息科技股份有限公司 具有定位功能的可佩戴物品及其应用

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EP1259003A1 (de) * 2001-05-15 2002-11-20 Tai-Her Yang Am arm tragbares fernbedienungsgerät
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